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Innovative modular wastewater treatment plant for the coal company SUEK-Kuzbass

The Ceremony to put the wastewater treatment
plant into operation took place at Taldinskaya-Zapadnaya mine administration of
SUEK-Kuzbass. Vladimir Melnik, State Duma member, labor hero of Russia, Evgeny
Khlebunov, Deputy Governor of the Kemerovo Region, and Irina Klimovskaya, Head of
Federal Service for Supervision of Nature Resources Administration for the
Kemerovo Region participated in the ceremony.

Construction
of the module type plant for treatment of mine waters as well as industrial and
domestic wastewater at Taldinskaya-Zapadnaya mine administration commenced in
spring 2017. The cost of the first project phase amounted to 500 million
rubles. It is based upon wastewater treatment concept of module type developed
by Envirochemie GmbH which successfully approved itself in operation of
wastewater treatment plant at the mine named after V.D. Yalevsky of AO
SUEK-Kuzbass put into operation in 2016.

The innovative
technology at Taldinskaya-Zapadnaya 1 mine includes a system of tailing ponds
and a modular unit of post-treatment consisting of five process modules with
the capacity of 90 m3/h each. Fully-featured processing line, the
main element of which is a Flomar 90 HF, space-saving high-performance
flotation plant, was assembled in every module of module type. The treatment
level allows the most volume of water to be used for the process needs of the
enterprise. The remaining water, which meets all the established sanitary norms
and wastewater parameters, is discharged into the Kyrgai River.

The
construction of the wastewater treatment plant will be fully completed by 2019.
The total capacity will increase up to 880 m3/h.

'It is
very important, that coal companies, while increasing productivity of mines and
open pits to the global coal mining standards, steadily invest heavily into
green production, implementation of sophisticated and efficient technologies to
minimize the so-called man-made impact on our Kuzbass nature,' said Vladimir
Melnik at the opening ceremony.

'SUEK-Kuzbass
can be a good example of a responsible business attitude to the conservation of
biodiversity and the introduction of green technologies into the coal-mining
process. They demonstrate harmonic coexistance of coal companies and the
environment,' underlined Irina Klimovskaya.

For reference: SUEK is one of the leading coal
companies of the world, the largest coal producer in Russia, the major coal
supplier to internal and external markets. Mining, processing, transport and
service companies of SUEK are located in eight regions of Russia. There are
over 33,500 people working for SUEK enterprises. Andrei Melnichenko is the
major shareholder.